This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
Ointments and lotions containing bromine have been applied to glandular swellings and ulcerations, and to patches of chronic eczema, with moderate success (Bonnet: Bulletin de Therapeutique, 1837), but severe symptoms of irritation of lungs and stomach have sometimes followed, and iodine applications are more generally adopted.
 
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